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David Shiner, creator of KOOZA, visit Sevilla

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By AndaluNet on 17/06/2019

Cirque du Soleil KOOZA, new show in Seville of Circo del Sol · Under its Big Top

Seville, 17 June 2019

David Shiner, creator of KOOZA, today visited Sevilla to discuss the creation of the show that first visit Sevilla in January 2020.

The show closes the Spanish tour in the Andalusian capital, after visiting Valencia, Gijón, Malaga and Madrid.

David Shiner
Writer and Director

"The clown takes our deepest human weaknesses and makes them funny. The clown is also an anarchist. The clown gets to break the rules. "
—David Shiner

David Shiner loves to make people laugh him, but takes seriously the art of the clown. "Essentially, the clown is a character who helps us keep in touch with a sacred part of ourselves ", Explain. "It is a difficult role to play. In the essence of the character is the desire and the desire to find meaning in life ".

David Shiner started his career as a carpenter until he realized its potential to make people laugh. She jumped into street mime in Paris and his career took off in 1984 when it was discovered at the festival Famous Circus Demain. after that, he joined with several renowned companies such as the German Circus Roncalli and the Swiss Circus Knie national company.

Shiner in film

His film debut would come in 1992, when she played the role of clown Lorenzo’s Oil (Oil life), George Miller, and where he starred opposite Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte. In the following year he formed humorous pair with Bill Irwin Silent Tongue, de Sam Shepard. That was when he and Irwin created their dumb show couple, Fool Moon, with music by the Red Clay Ramblers, who had also worked in Silent Tongue.

Fool Moon, Broadway show inspired, It was released in 1992 and he plotted to 1999, including three seasons in Broadway at different times. The production won a special Tony Award for best live theater show 1999 and a Drama Desk for its unique theatrical experience.

In 2000, David created the role of the Cat in the Hat, the presenter and guide the Broadway musical Seussical. Supported by a grant from the Pugh Foundation, He developed a show at the ACT Theater in Seattle and then took part of the show for its production alone, David Shiner in the Round.

David Shiner is Cirque du Soleil

The first formal association with Cirque du Soleil David came in 1990, when he performed at New experience, one of the first shows of the company, which he toured for 19 months across Canada.
With its mischievous nature and daring and classic staging based on improvisation and inspired by the melodramatic silent film teases with four guests from the public, He is probably best remembered clown of the Cirque. The production was filmed by HBO in 1991 and other television work includes numerous appearances on The Tonight Show.

David currently teaches at the Theater August Everding in Munich.

David was born in 1953 a Boston, Massachusetts.